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Dani, Meggan & Aladdin
Set about 2am tomorrow morning. Dani's worried about Forge and her stress is keeping Meggan up so they end up watching Aladin and discussing souls. Completely random and cutely thoughtful.
Dani flipped through the channels on the TV in the common room trying to find something on. At 2am though, very little was on. A little voice in her head said that she should sleep, she had classes in the morning, she had work to do, she had homework to do, but nothing mattered right now. Forge was missing and she couldn't go find him like the X-Men, but she'd be damned if she just carried on as if it were just another day. She was worried, plain and simple. Not even stealing one of his sweat shirts had helped. All she could do was sit there and wait and pray and hope.
"Dani?" Meggan trailed out of the bedroom, yawning a bit. It was really hard to sleep with Dani's emotions fizzing all over the place... and Meggan missed Forge, too. So she settled on the couch beside Dani and rested her head on the older girl's shoulder. "There any 'toons?"
"Not this late, Wiggle-butt," Dani said, yawning slightly and opening her blanket up so Meggan could crawl under it with her. Meggan was extremely tactile, which Dani didn't mind at all, "You want to put on a movie? We can watch Aladdin again, if you want." She wasn't going to try to force Meggan back to bed, especially since she was probably the one keeping her up, but maybe if Meggan fell asleep Dani could too.
"Okay." Meggan wriggled in under the blanket and hugged her. "I like Aladdin. Only I like the monkey and the tiger and Iago better than him. Aladdin's kinda dumb."
"That's cause Aladdin didn't go to school like you do," Dani explained, secure in the knowledge that animals were more intelligent that humans by virtue of being not-human. Snaking one arm out from the blanket, Dani pushed the 'play' button on the remote and hope that Aladin was still in the DVD player, "Aladdin is a good guy though, he just wants to do the best he can. Ain't nothing wrong with that."
"He's stupid. He tells Jasmine lots of fibs to make her like him." Meggan shook her head. "'Manda says boys are pretty dumb when they try to make girls like them, but telling that many lies that she's GONNA find out about is dumb even for a boy."
"Not any stupider than girls, I don't think," Dani defended Aladdin, thinking of her luck with the opposite sex. Even without telling lies it was pretty easy to mess things up! "But Amanda is right, you shouldn't lie to people because they'll be mad when they find out and won't trust you anymore."
"I don't never tell lies," Meggan said virtuously. "I don't want my insides to go slithery."
"'Slithery?'" Dani repeated, making sure she heard correctly, she didn't think that Meggan knew about the native stories about animals, "Like a snake? What makes you think you will become a snake?"
"When people tell fibs they get slithery on their inside," Meggan explained. "Sort of squirmy and sticky, like worms. It doesn't look very nice." She wrinkled her nose. "It's sort of greeny-orange," she added, remembering that she'd heard Dani mention colour in connection with emotion once or twice.
Only two empaths could have a conversation quite like this and have it make sense, although understanding Meggan was somes a challenge regardless of mutation, "It's a very sick looking color, kinda like throw-up," Dani agreed, understanding, "but are you talking about your soul or your guts when you say 'insides?' 'Cause I don't think your guts change at all, just your soul."
Meggan scrunched up her face thoughtfully. "The bits behind your skin," she explained, a bit uncertainly. "Right now yours are all spiky and tangled up 'cause you're scared and worried. Bad feelings make you spiky or jaggedy. Nice feelings are more loopy or curly. And yours are all mixed up all the time, like pickup-sticks." She liked pickup-sticks, it was a fun game.
Gee thanks. Nothing like having your emotional confusion and uncontrollableness confirmed by a 13 year old to make your already worried, insomniatic state even worse. "I think you're talking about a persons soul, Meggan," Dani said, keeping her voice steady. Not that it mattered with Meggan, but it was the principle of it all. "Remember when we talked about where babies come from?"
"Well, souls are inside you, aren't they? So they're insides," Meggan pointed out. That was logic, after all. "And I could see the babies 'fore they were born. They were cute! They were like little tiny shiny loops inside you an' Moira's big loops."
Patience, Dani told herself, not entirely certain why she was getting worked up. Normally she didn't mind answering Meggan's questions all day long. Of course, now it was night time. "Souls are inside you, but they're more than that. They're around you too. But the babies were only inside us. Their souls were inside them and us and around us both too. Does that make sense?"
Meggan nodded. "I know I can't see ALL of people's insides. Because I can't see where the food goes," she admitted. "I've looked. I know food goes in and poop comes out, but I can't see where. I think the feelings-insides get in the way."
Dani just about died when Meggan said that, she giggled so much it bordered on hysterics, "You can't see a persons guts because it's too dark inside a person," she tried to explain, gasping for air. Really, it wasn't that funny. Vaguely she was reminded of a t-shirt that she saw Ms. Mahn wearing in the library once, 'outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend, inside of a dog it is too dark to read.'
"I could make my eyes go see-in-the-dark-y," Meggan suggested. "I can do that. I think. I've never done it on purpose, but if I really wanted to when it WAS dark, sometimes I could."
"That won't help, I don't think. You would need to open a person up like a doctor and that would be a very bad thing to do. Worse than telling a lie, but you could ask the doctors to show you pictures of a persons insides, I bet they have them," the idea of Meggan having glow-in-the-dark eyes was creepy. Really, really creepy.
"I'll ask Moira," Meggan decided. "Can't you see insides?" she asked, after a pause. "I know you see colours, I heard you say so, can't you see the shapes too?" She poked Dani gently in the stomach. "There's a big tangly bit just here. Kind of cold and nasty-feeling. You can't see?"
"I can feel it," the older woman said, wondering what exactly it was. Her worry and fear over Forge or her worry and turmoil over Manuel. Or something else entirely? She was pretty sure she had failed her first English paper of the semester. "but I can't see it."
"I can." Meggan snuggled up to her, wrapping thin, fuzzy arms around her. "Hugs help, though. They always make me feel less spiky."
"Hugs make a lot of things better," Dani hugged her back tightly and closed her eyes. "You wanna try to get some sleep?"
"We can watch the movie first. An' then sleep." Meggan turned her attention to the previously-ignored television. "The singing will make you feel less spiky! We can sing along."
Smiling, Dani watched as Aladin skated across rooftops to avoid the police, "I always like 'A Whole New World'," she said randomly, "It reminds me of beig here."
"I like 'Friend Like Me," Meggan said, snuggling up happily. "The Genie's funny."
Dani flipped through the channels on the TV in the common room trying to find something on. At 2am though, very little was on. A little voice in her head said that she should sleep, she had classes in the morning, she had work to do, she had homework to do, but nothing mattered right now. Forge was missing and she couldn't go find him like the X-Men, but she'd be damned if she just carried on as if it were just another day. She was worried, plain and simple. Not even stealing one of his sweat shirts had helped. All she could do was sit there and wait and pray and hope.
"Dani?" Meggan trailed out of the bedroom, yawning a bit. It was really hard to sleep with Dani's emotions fizzing all over the place... and Meggan missed Forge, too. So she settled on the couch beside Dani and rested her head on the older girl's shoulder. "There any 'toons?"
"Not this late, Wiggle-butt," Dani said, yawning slightly and opening her blanket up so Meggan could crawl under it with her. Meggan was extremely tactile, which Dani didn't mind at all, "You want to put on a movie? We can watch Aladdin again, if you want." She wasn't going to try to force Meggan back to bed, especially since she was probably the one keeping her up, but maybe if Meggan fell asleep Dani could too.
"Okay." Meggan wriggled in under the blanket and hugged her. "I like Aladdin. Only I like the monkey and the tiger and Iago better than him. Aladdin's kinda dumb."
"That's cause Aladdin didn't go to school like you do," Dani explained, secure in the knowledge that animals were more intelligent that humans by virtue of being not-human. Snaking one arm out from the blanket, Dani pushed the 'play' button on the remote and hope that Aladin was still in the DVD player, "Aladdin is a good guy though, he just wants to do the best he can. Ain't nothing wrong with that."
"He's stupid. He tells Jasmine lots of fibs to make her like him." Meggan shook her head. "'Manda says boys are pretty dumb when they try to make girls like them, but telling that many lies that she's GONNA find out about is dumb even for a boy."
"Not any stupider than girls, I don't think," Dani defended Aladdin, thinking of her luck with the opposite sex. Even without telling lies it was pretty easy to mess things up! "But Amanda is right, you shouldn't lie to people because they'll be mad when they find out and won't trust you anymore."
"I don't never tell lies," Meggan said virtuously. "I don't want my insides to go slithery."
"'Slithery?'" Dani repeated, making sure she heard correctly, she didn't think that Meggan knew about the native stories about animals, "Like a snake? What makes you think you will become a snake?"
"When people tell fibs they get slithery on their inside," Meggan explained. "Sort of squirmy and sticky, like worms. It doesn't look very nice." She wrinkled her nose. "It's sort of greeny-orange," she added, remembering that she'd heard Dani mention colour in connection with emotion once or twice.
Only two empaths could have a conversation quite like this and have it make sense, although understanding Meggan was somes a challenge regardless of mutation, "It's a very sick looking color, kinda like throw-up," Dani agreed, understanding, "but are you talking about your soul or your guts when you say 'insides?' 'Cause I don't think your guts change at all, just your soul."
Meggan scrunched up her face thoughtfully. "The bits behind your skin," she explained, a bit uncertainly. "Right now yours are all spiky and tangled up 'cause you're scared and worried. Bad feelings make you spiky or jaggedy. Nice feelings are more loopy or curly. And yours are all mixed up all the time, like pickup-sticks." She liked pickup-sticks, it was a fun game.
Gee thanks. Nothing like having your emotional confusion and uncontrollableness confirmed by a 13 year old to make your already worried, insomniatic state even worse. "I think you're talking about a persons soul, Meggan," Dani said, keeping her voice steady. Not that it mattered with Meggan, but it was the principle of it all. "Remember when we talked about where babies come from?"
"Well, souls are inside you, aren't they? So they're insides," Meggan pointed out. That was logic, after all. "And I could see the babies 'fore they were born. They were cute! They were like little tiny shiny loops inside you an' Moira's big loops."
Patience, Dani told herself, not entirely certain why she was getting worked up. Normally she didn't mind answering Meggan's questions all day long. Of course, now it was night time. "Souls are inside you, but they're more than that. They're around you too. But the babies were only inside us. Their souls were inside them and us and around us both too. Does that make sense?"
Meggan nodded. "I know I can't see ALL of people's insides. Because I can't see where the food goes," she admitted. "I've looked. I know food goes in and poop comes out, but I can't see where. I think the feelings-insides get in the way."
Dani just about died when Meggan said that, she giggled so much it bordered on hysterics, "You can't see a persons guts because it's too dark inside a person," she tried to explain, gasping for air. Really, it wasn't that funny. Vaguely she was reminded of a t-shirt that she saw Ms. Mahn wearing in the library once, 'outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend, inside of a dog it is too dark to read.'
"I could make my eyes go see-in-the-dark-y," Meggan suggested. "I can do that. I think. I've never done it on purpose, but if I really wanted to when it WAS dark, sometimes I could."
"That won't help, I don't think. You would need to open a person up like a doctor and that would be a very bad thing to do. Worse than telling a lie, but you could ask the doctors to show you pictures of a persons insides, I bet they have them," the idea of Meggan having glow-in-the-dark eyes was creepy. Really, really creepy.
"I'll ask Moira," Meggan decided. "Can't you see insides?" she asked, after a pause. "I know you see colours, I heard you say so, can't you see the shapes too?" She poked Dani gently in the stomach. "There's a big tangly bit just here. Kind of cold and nasty-feeling. You can't see?"
"I can feel it," the older woman said, wondering what exactly it was. Her worry and fear over Forge or her worry and turmoil over Manuel. Or something else entirely? She was pretty sure she had failed her first English paper of the semester. "but I can't see it."
"I can." Meggan snuggled up to her, wrapping thin, fuzzy arms around her. "Hugs help, though. They always make me feel less spiky."
"Hugs make a lot of things better," Dani hugged her back tightly and closed her eyes. "You wanna try to get some sleep?"
"We can watch the movie first. An' then sleep." Meggan turned her attention to the previously-ignored television. "The singing will make you feel less spiky! We can sing along."
Smiling, Dani watched as Aladin skated across rooftops to avoid the police, "I always like 'A Whole New World'," she said randomly, "It reminds me of beig here."
"I like 'Friend Like Me," Meggan said, snuggling up happily. "The Genie's funny."
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(and FYI everyone - this was written on the assumption that a general announcement (or a priveate one to Dani) would be given about Forge. which is part of why it is taking place to late.)